I'm awake late and trying to stop myself from endlessly refreshing e-mail in regard to something exciting ( Read more... )

The January 2016 Burns Supper is scheduled, and dinner reservations are currently open. The Facebook event is here; it's Monday, January 25, starting at 6:00 p.m., at the Burren pub in Davis Square. This is a fun evening, and I missed the one last year, but I'm determined to go this time.

The registration page is here. Please note that admission ( Read more... )

"Who Is It That Afflicts You?" by Rachel. Excellent essay on the Salem witch panic, posted at Autostraddle. Linked on Tumblr by mooncustafer; thank you.

I surprised myself by enjoying "The Space-Eaters" just now. It's by Frank Belknap Long, weird fiction writer and longtime friend of Lovecraft. It's a cosmic horror story about two writer friends, Frank and Howard, who encounter terrible nameless Things and brag about how they're going to put this in a story someday. The self-referential nature of ( Read more... )

I'm in Burlington, Vermont for the weekend. There's no particular event happening; I just haven't been here since the Champlain Valley Folk Festival a few years ago, and I wanted to revisit the Shelburne Museum. It feels good to be somewhere that nobody knows me, I have no set schedule and I can wander at length and admire things and places and ( Read more... )

So there's this giant billboard over the highway in East Boston. I drive by it if I'm taking the short way from work to the gas station. It's mysterious and vague and has pictures of two butterflies with flags on their wings. I could never be bothered to look up the flags before now ( Read more... )

A post in which I go off like a rocket about the Salem witchcraft trials, and forget that it's Tumblr and no one is listening anyway. Linking here in case I need it again.

LOOK AT THIS. YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID.

For those who hate surprises, this is footage of the restored whaleship Charles W. Morgan sailing on Stellwagen Bank. I've never seen her under sail until just now. That alone would be wonderful, but there's also the fact that one of the whaleboats is launched and circling around a humpback whale ( Read more... )

Cambridge Historical Tours just posted last year's (mostly unused) Ghost Tour publicity shots. Go and marvel. How terrible the aspect of her eyes!

For those of you who hoped I would post more about my day job... this may not be what you'd hoped.  I am so sorry ( Read more... )